Interest, Learning, and Motivation

Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users

“…The self-determination theory, for example, suggests that a sense of security and relatedness in an interaction will tend to lead to a greater motivation support (Ryan & Deci, 2000). Evidence also supports the view that adaptive motivational patterns promote personal achievement goals (Dweck, 1986), with personal interest playing an important role (Schiefele, 1991). Previous studies with robots have shown that the interaction quality drops quickly when the robot's behavioural repertoire is too limited, as indicated by Kanda, Hirano, and Eaton (2004) and Tanaka, Cicourel, and Movellan (2007), and that the children become bored if the interaction is too repetitive and predictable, as suggested by (Ros, Baroni, & Demiris, 2014).…”

Supporting interest of middle school students in mathematics through context personalization and example choice

“…Durik, Shechter, Noh, Rozek, & Harackiewicz, 2015;Linnenbrink-Garcia, Patall, & Messersmith, 2013). In contrast to situational interest, individual interest is a relative enduring predisposition to reengage in a particular content, which results in experiences of positive affect and value of engagement (Renninger & Su, 2012;Schiefele, 1991). Perception of competence is often related to individual interest Skaalvik & Skaalvik, 2008), suggesting that these constructs that co-occur in learning situations (Köller, Baumert, & Schnabel, 2001).…”

Inventing a solution and studying a worked solution prepare differently for learning from direct instruction

“…We define epistemic curiosity and situational interest as states that are externally triggered by features of an intervention (Hidi & Berndorff, 1998) during learning; note that we do not refer to learners' traits or habitual orientations. Situational interest is a response to a topic or material that is useful to the learner (valuerelated interest) or induces positive feelings such as 'feeling stimulated' (feeling-related interest, Schiefele, 1991). The topicand material-related situational interest can be a source of intrinsic motivation (Schiefele, 1991) and foster the development of enduring individual interest (Hidi & Renninger, 2006).…”